My development team costs $41.73 a month
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My development team costs $41.73 a month
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Re: My development team costs $41.73 a month
#2I think we need a mandatory disclosure on software "was >1% vibecoded" same as we have on allergens for food. This'll prevent its use in any safety-critical place.
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#3I think we need a mandatory disclosure on software "was >1% vibecoded" same as we have on allergens for food. This'll prevent its use in any safety-critical place.
What if the software was not vibe coded but upstream packages were?
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#4I think we need a mandatory disclosure on software "was >1% vibecoded" same as we have on allergens for food. This'll prevent its use in any safety-critical place.
If we do, we need to draw clear distinctions between different kinds of AI-driven development.
What % of human intervention was there? A module written for me by AI, that was tightly specced with function signatures and behaviour cases, is going to be far more reliable (and arguably basically is human developed) than something an AI just wrote and filled in all the blanks with.
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#5>It doesn’t remember that last week we made a small refactor to make future development easier, or that I abandoned a particular idea as a dead end
Sometimes you need to keep the context and sometimes you need to reset it.
An example of needing to reset. Asking for X, later realizing you meant Y and having the LLM oscillates between them, on an unrelated request it adds X back in, removing Y. Etc.
Clearing the context solves the above. I currently do this by restarting the IDE in Intellij since there isn't a simple button to do it. It's a 100% required feature and knowing LLM contexts and managing them is going to be a basic part of working with LLMs in the future. Yet the concept of the need to do this hasn't quite sunk in yet. It's like the first cars not actually having brakes and the drivers and passengers used to get out and put their feet down. We're at that stage.
What we really need is detailed context history of the AI and a way to manage it well. "Forget i ever asked this prompt". "Keep this prompt in mind next time i restart the IDE" are both examples of extremely important and obvious functionality that just doesn't exist right now.
Re: My development team costs $41.73 a month
#6If the headline is true, this guy values the AI at $41.73, but his own time at $0/hr. If that's how we're measuring things, then my development team costs $0 a month.
Re: My development team costs $41.73 a month
#7I think we need a mandatory disclosure on software "was >1% vibecoded" same as we have on allergens for food. This'll prevent its use in any safety-critical place.
What if the software was not vibe coded but upstream packages were?
then they will have such stickers, and for each piece of SW we consider the sticker percentage of the transitive closure of dependencies.
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#8Re: My development team costs $41.73 a month
#9If the headline is true, this guy values the AI at $41.73, but his own time at $0/hr. If that's how we're measuring things, then my development team costs $0 a month.
Blog post author here.
From my perspective I didn't have a development team before. I have one now. I guess I am a member of that team now. But I hadn't thought of it like that -- another strange dimension to working Copilot (and its ilk).
Re: My development team costs $41.73 a month
#10If the headline is true, this guy values the AI at $41.73, but his own time at $0/hr. If that's how we're measuring things, then my development team costs $0 a month.
Blog post author here. From my perspective I didn't have a development team before. I have one now. I guess I am a member of that team now. But I hadn't thought of it like that -- another strange dimension to working Copilot (and its ilk).
Also, I don't value Copilot at $41.73. What actually happens is that GitHub charges me $41.73. I value it at way more. The consumer surplus here is substantial, IMHO.